The PEC has approached the Government, offering it to construct pre-fabricated rehabilitation structures for Sardar Sarovar Project oustees as well as Kandla cyclone victims. Chief general manager G D Singh had a detailed discussion with Narmada Development Minister Jay Narayan Vyas here on Tuesday.

Later, Singh told newspersons that the Arunachal Pradesh Government was evincing keen interest in this project and had engaged PEC to construct 300 pre-fabricated fibreglass school structures, with one such school structure being raised there every weeks.

He said Gujarat could be the most ideal for PEC to construct such structures, for raw material like gypsum and flyash were available in abundance. In view of gypsum, a solid waste, amply available with Gujarat State Fertiliser Corporation, PEC proposed a manufacturing unit near Vadodara with the help of Australian technology, he added.

Singh said the pre-fabricated fibreglass structure experiment had succeeded in Malaysia, Australia and Bahrain, and was winning favour in India. Such houses can be built in some four hours and will cost much less.

The pre-fabricated houses will use hollow blocks of Gybcrete, a composit of gymsum, fibreglass and flyash. Each block will be 20x5 feet. A square meter of such a block will weigh around 35 kg, Singh said, adding inner thickness of a wall was only 90 cm and that of the outer one 120 cm. This provides 12 per cent additional space in pre-fabricated houses.